How do I reassign a child's Apple ID to an iPad under my ID (so we can take advantage of family sharing)?

I think I may have an answer to your problem as I had to assign a new Apple ID to my brother's iPod (he was using my dad's ID and their iCloud storage was alluded up).

So after experimenting a little bit, I found a way to sign into a different Apple ID in iCloud.

1. Go into Settings

2. Scroll down to iCloud

3. Scroll down all the way to where it says "Sign Out" (it might say "Delete Account", this won't actually delet it)

4. A pop-up window will appear, tap "Delete"

5. Next, I would recommend tapping "Keep on My iPad"

6. Now it will exit the iCloud tab, so scroll down and tap iCloud again and sign in with your daughter's Apple ID

7. Once again a pop-up window will appear, I recommend tapping "Merge"

8. You will be prompted if you want to enable "Find My iPad", you may or may not want to enable it.

THis shouldn't harm

Ok. I've read your post and think I can follow. But if you are still out there, my child is still on my username. Can someone please walk me through from there to get to where Gregory.... is? My phone has literally nothing on it, but I get at least 6 times a day 'storage full' and can't even run updates. My child's iPad is on my username. He's around 8 too and likes to take LOTS of pics of his apps.....I need him off and out of my account but do I need to get family sharing for him to be able to keep his apps at their place?

Sorry if this is simplistic - but what happens if you go into Settings --> iCloud --> Sign out and then sign back in with your daughter's ID on your daughter's iPad Mini?

I Don't want to give you bad advice because, like I said, I'm not using Family Sharing.

SInce your daughter was using your Apple ID, any game progress she has is still associated with your ID and you cannot change that. You cannot transfer purchases or app data from one Apple ID to another one. So she will always have to use your ID if she wants to keep that data. It would be a different situation (or at least I assume) if she had downloaded the app from your purchased apps via Family Sharing and then started playing the game with her own ID. But she was playing under your ID and you cannot change that.

As for the iCloud account, the same applies. Since she was using your Apple ID, the backed up data that she had, as well as her photos, are in your iCloud backup and that cannot be changed either. You can import her photos to a computer and then sync them back to her iPad and then remove them from your Photo Stream.

I hate to keep repeating this because I feel like I may not be providing the help that you need, but I know very little about Family Sharing but I am quite certain about then other points that I made. If nothing else, we can keep the dialog going until someone else joins in that is using Family Sharing.

my problem is exactly the same, except that when I go into into my iCloud settings (following the advice above) the signout box at the bottom of the iCloud page is greyed and doesn't do anything! So I cant sign out of iCloud...

I am not using Family Sharing, but I know that you do not have to do a factory reset in order for your child to use her ID. As far as I know, you can sign her into her own ID in Settings>iTunes & App Store>Apple ID. Tap your ID and sign out and then sign in with her ID. Since you are already using Family Sharing, you probably know how to go about sharing family purchases, but just in case.

Sharing purchased content with Family Sharing - Apple Support

This might also be helpful.

http://9to5mac.com/2014/09/19/ios-8-how-to-set-up-and-use-family-sharing/

gregoryfromwinchester wrote:

Ha, ha, ha! OMG! I have literally spend hours trying to figure this out, and all I had to do was scroll down to the bottom of the iCloud page and click on "Sign Out"! Many thanks, problem solved! LOL!

Took me a while to find that too!🙂

This shouldn't harm any data. When I did this all games/apps kept their progress.

Sorry for the double reply, I accidentally tapped "Reply" (I'm on my iPad mini)

- smaug01

The best place to start when trying to troubleshoot is always with the most basic things. Good work! 🙂

Thank you kindly

Go to Settings>General>Restrictions>Allow Changes>Accounts. If that is enabled, you cannot make changes to mail and iCloud accounts. Turn it off.